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US Senate in marathon voting session on Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

# A marathon voting session on US president Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill is underway in the Senate after a weekend of negotiations and delays. The open-ended, hours-long series of votes on amendments is still going with no end in sight. The extended voting session provides an opportunity for Republicans to make any eleventh-hour adjustments to the package. Trump’s multitrillion-dollar bill would lower federal taxes and infuse more money into the Pentagon and border security agencies, while downsizing government safety-net programmes, including Medicaid.